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This was given to me by a friend today, who had visited a recent Mardi Gras parade. His girlfriend found it while randomly scavenging around.

It originally had a red rubber band on it, but that ended up cut and lost, hence the regular rubber band to keep it closed. Thankfully it was never used though.

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[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 27 points 4 days ago (25 children)

It's a type of expanding broadhead. I'm not into bow hunting but I've seen other people use them. They're supposed to penetrate the hide and rib cage and then the blades expand to inflict as much damage as possible. Otherwise you might miss all the vital organs and watch your deer (or other game) high tail it off into the woods, never to be seen again.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world -2 points 4 days ago (24 children)

The part that fucks my head up is that it was found by my friends near a Mardi Gras parade, in D'Iberville Mississippi.

I wasn't there with them for the parade, but like hell, was someone planning something bad? 🤔🤷

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 2 points 4 days ago

Oh! Duh-eye-ber-vil? Or maybe Die-ber-vil? Is that how it's pronounced?

At first I was getting angry at MS for having a Dilbertville.

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